I have a string in my program containing a newline character:
char const *str = "Hello\nWorld";
Normally when printing such a string to stdout the \n creates a new line, so the output is:
Hello
World
But I would like to print the string to stdout with the newline character escaped, so the output looks like:
Hello\nWorld
How can I do this without modifying the string literal?
The solution I opted for (thanks @RemyLebeau ) is to create a copy of the string and escape the desired escape sequences ( "\n"
becomes "\\n"
).
Here is the function which does this escaping:
void escape_escape_sequences(std::string &str) {
for (size_t i = 0; i < str.length();) {
char const c = str[i];
char rawEquiv = '\0';
if (c == '\n') rawEquiv = 'n';
else if (c == '\t') rawEquiv = 't';
else if (c == '\r') rawEquiv = 'r';
else if (c == '\f') rawEquiv = 'f';
if (rawEquiv != '\0') {
str[i] = rawEquiv;
str.insert(i, "\\");
i += 2;
} else {
++i;
}
}
}
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